In April this year my web site celebrated its eleventh birthday. It started out as a little 1MB baby attached to my dial-up account, morphed into the online prototype for the book No Shitting in the Toilet and then, after I began to make a living out of this writing caper, grew up to become [...]

I got an email from Fran today telling me that her mother, Evelyn, is a big fan. She borrowed a copy of Swahili for the Broken-Hearted from her library simply because we share the same surname and she loved it. It was an audio version especially produced for Visually Impaired People. Evelyn, you see is [...]

You know how I said that normal transmission had resumed? Well, it seems I was a little hasty. I just had to dash back to Australia for my grandmother’s funeral. My grandmother’s death has been a long time coming. She had a stroke four years ago and had been in a nursing home unable to [...]

I dropped by John Birmingham’s blog this morning and read his entry on his ‘happy place.’ It’s an imaginary world where he retreats when the real world gets him down. For John it’s his old flat in Bondi – but in a parallel universe where the sun is always shining, the waves are always good [...]